Apple smiles as unlocked iPhones abound   25 Apr 2008 21:56 GMT
So if you're Apple -- and I realize that it's unfair of me to make you pretend you're a multinational corporation worth billions, but I'm cruel that way -- what happens when you realize that many of the 5.4 million iPhones you've sold in the past 10 months haven't been activated on the networks of any of your worldwide cellular partners?
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Nokia Continues To Dominate Mobile Phone Market (TechWeb)   25 Apr 2008 20:59 GMT
TechWeb - Mobile phone suppliers shipped a total of 291.5 million units during the first quarter, up 14.3% from a year ago.
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Skype Adds Calling to Mobile Phones (PC World)   25 Apr 2008 17:50 GMT
PC World - Mobile phones gain the ability to receive calls via Skype, and place calls in limited markets, leading to a question as to whether Skype plus cellular still benefits the mobile operators.
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America Movil shares plunge, weighing down Mexican market (AP)   25 Apr 2008 17:40 GMT
AP - Shares of America Movil, Latin America's largest mobile phone service provider, plunged Friday following a report that the company's first-quarter profit fell 5.5 percent.
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Report: Global cell phone sales up 14 pct in 1Q (AP)   25 Apr 2008 17:11 GMT
AP - Global mobile phone sales continued to surge in the first quarter, when shipments reached 282 million despite an economic downturn, research firm Strategy Analytics said Friday.
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Launch of RIM's 3G BlackBerry faces delay: report (Reuters)   25 Apr 2008 17:04 GMT

Reuters - Research in Motion shares fell about 4 percent on Friday after a Fortune.com story said that a high-speed wireless version of its BlackBerry smartphone for top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc is facing delays.

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Top 10: Hacks, more hacks, Ballmer on Yahoo, OLPC woes   25 Apr 2008 16:53 GMT
This week those nasty JavaScript attacks that besieged thousands of Web sites from January until March started back up again, with the hackers setting up shop at a Chinese IP address. Meanwhile, security officials in China expressed worries that computer systems there will be hacked during the Olympics in August, even as hackers went after the CNN site and defaced a sports page with a message that Tibet is part of China, now and forever.
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Skype tests application for mobile phones   25 Apr 2008 15:53 GMT
EBay-owned Skype has released into open beta testing a client for mobile phones that supports phone calls, chat, and other features of the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) application.
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Vodafone, China Mobile, and Softbank team on mobile Internet   25 Apr 2008 13:19 GMT
Vodafone, China Mobile, and Softbank are putting together a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to accelerate the roll-out of mobile Internet services. They plan to formalize the arrangement later this year.
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Cellphone market Q1 growth fastest since 2006 (Reuters)   25 Apr 2008 05:18 GMT

Reuters - Handset makers sold 14 percent more phones in January-March than a year ago, growing at the fastest pace in five quarters, research firms said on Friday.

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